Well your Vanagon is following the Vanagon Eat Money rule. It will require you to spend at least the purchase price of the Vanagon within one year for repairs, improvements, maintenance. Your fuel and oil cost aren't considered in these rules. Sure glad I only paid $2000.00 for mine, I put $1800.00 into it within 90 days after I got it. Dirty brushes or oil on the commutators can cause low voltage. However I know that your Vanagon wants a 120 AMP alternator that costs $180.00 so a locally rebuilt $90.00 ain't going to get it. Stan Wilder On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:06:34 -0700 developtrust <developtrust@COX.NET> writes: > Steve Freyling, a local list member, came over to help me diagnose > my > alternator. He says it should put out 14.5 or so on a volt meter and > mine is > putting out 13.3 or so. > > Any advice anyone in what the problem might be? How easy will it be > for me > to replace the brushes? > > William > 1989 Vanagon GL > 1988 Mercedes 300SE > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. |
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